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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07
Tokio's Principal Street

To stroll down the pI iucipal street of
Toxic OF an evening is a species of lib
eral education. Long lines or gayly
lighted shops, crammed with wares to
captivate alike the novice and the con-
noisseur, look out upon an equally end
less succession of torchlit booths, that
display happy medley or old curios
and new conceits. Here the very
latest thing in inventions, a gutta
percha rat, that for some reason best
known to the vender scampers about
squeaking with mimicry to shame
the original, holds an admiring crowd
spellbound with mingled trep,dation
and delight.
There a native zoetrope, ingenious
round of pleasure, whose top, fashioned
after the type of a turbine wheel,
enables candle in tine center to supply
both illumination and motive power at
the same time, affords to as many as
can find room on its circumference a
peep at the composite antics of con.
secutively pictured monkey in the act
of jumping a box, Then, again 1t is
some flower stand, in the growth of
whose shrubs, art has dared even to In
terfere with nature, and begotted forms
which the parent plant would fail tc
recognize. while opposite this show IS d
booth that, among It's other curiosities
has for sale little microscopes with legs
| Thus from one attraction to an other yoI
wander on for miles, carried along witt
the tide of pleasure seekers in a sort oi
realized dream
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07
NATIVES OF THE NORTH.
Tremendous Appetites of the Inhabi-
tants ofthe Arctic Region

When we were at John Rowland bay,
a month ago, on the Arctic coast, l was
visiting on the Hunter, where the saL-
ors were scraping off the pieces of the
gum adherIng to the butt ends of the
whalebone. The natives stood by, and
as the long shavings were rolled of
gathered them all up, eating what they
could hold, and storing the rest away
IN their canoes. i tasted OF the stuff
out of curiosity's sake, but dropped it
as soon as 1 could. The flavor is about
as I would imagine a rotten raw peanut
to be. For a steady diet, L should hes
itate between that and faith, but the
natives all evidently rellshed 1t exceed
ingly, and they chewed by the hour, as
schoolgirl would a piece of gum.
The greatest feast i have seen the
natives have was about two weeks ago,
when several whalers were lying at
anchor under East cape, on the AslatIc
shore. 4 whale was raised at the
southwark, working rapidly up along
the shore. Twenty-Five or thirty whale
boats were Immediately lowered, and
the gauntlet was to much for the whale.
He was soon captured and alongside the
Lucretia to be cut in. Seven canoe
loads of natives came off to claim their
share of the whale, which custom has
defined as the fins, fiukes 1.-THE taIll, and
all the lean they can cut of. The
whale was very large one, making In
the vicinity of 140 barrels of oil, and
producing about $500 pounds!of whale
bone, hence there was great amount
of lean. How the natives did work to
save thIsl To me the whole scene was
most amusing. Work was begun about
O'Clock aud finished soon after mid
night, but the sun set only to rise in
an hour or two, so it was daylight all
the time The officers of the ship were
giving their orders, the donkey engine
was puffisg away turning the windlass,
which ratified lide dozen heavy log
chains. Twenty or thirty natives were
yelling like fiends. Huge sheets of
blutber were being hauled In at the
gangway.
Everything was excitement and noise.
The sea all about the ship was red with
blood, and natives were crawling all
along the whales CARCASS, holding big
sheath knives in their teeth, cutting off
a piece of meat when opportunity
offered, and iabbering away like so
many monkeys. When they were
through with the skeleton, it seemed
as if they could not have removed any
more meat even with piece of sand
paper. All their canoes were loaded
down as full AS they could carry with
neat. Now that the We. Was oy.sr.
the feast followed. The most tooth
some part of the whale to them is the
black skin from the lips, the fins and
the flukes. and these opened the feast.
Imagine a man ore d woman, with a
| slice of meat the size or a four or i've
pound steak, surrounding corner with
an expansive mouth, then saving of
| the corner and writhing all over IN
order to chew up the whole piece and
not drop any from his mouth. This Is
the happiest moment one of these na-
| tlyes could wish for.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07
ZadkieI the Real Autocrat of the
Turks.

a study of Turkish superstition
might help to explain much that is
mysterious in the news telegraphed
daily from Stamboul to the newspapers
of the Giaour. Notwithstanding she
progress the Turks have made of late
years in the arts of civilization, Zad-
kiel is supreme king over the length
and breadth of the Ottoman empire.
From the highest to the lowest, all are
a prey to the devoutest superstition.
The Office of munedjim bashi. or court
astrologer, still exists. Its present oc
cupant, Hadji TahIr Effendi, was un-
til 1877 president of the council of ed
ucatlon, and during the short exist
ence of the Turkish parliament, nine
years ago, was created a senator. HIS
duties are not of a very complex kind,
but they have an important bearing on
POLITICAL and social naovennonto. For
every action of the sultan and his min
isters he has to calculate the most
propitious day, hour and even minute;
and he publishes annually an almanac
in which, for the benefit of the whole
Mohammedan population, the days are
specified on which IT is best to have the
hair cut or the nails trimmed, buy
houses, lands or slaves, to undertake a
journey, and even to do nothing. Next
10 the koran no work is more widely
studied among the subjects of the pa
dlshah. and 1t is very doubtful whether
even the great evangel of the prophet
Is more scrupulously oDeyed.
Much that Is inexplicable in diploma
tic negotiations at StambOul might be
accounted for If it were found that the
proverbIal ill-luck OF Sundays, Tues
days and Saturdays had not been duly
conside ed, or that proper attention
was not paid TO the seven evil days in
every lunar month, or to the unlucky
character of the month of Safer, the
second month IN the Arabic calendar.
No Turk would be bold enough to en-
ter a new house or undertake a journey
of these unpropItuous DAYS when the
sheytans or devils are abroad, much
less consider seriously a question OF
politics. 1t goes without saying that
the average Turk thoroughly indorses
the pathological eccentrlcities of the
peculiar people and the cOSmlc
heresies of Mr.. John Hampden. In
severe cases of sickness the services of
the hakim are dispensed with, and the
prayers of a sheIkh or holy man are re-
Questioned. AS for the globular shape
of the earth and its alleged revolutions,
the intelligent Mohammedan laughs
such follies to scorn. The disappear
ance of the sun at night is accounted
for by the periodical retirement of that
pious lumInaTy for prayer and religious
reflection.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07
A BLIND MAN ON MEMORY.
The Sightless Pupil Possesses One
Vital Advantage Over His Com.
panions-

A s partial compensation, in the midst
OF his many discouragements, the sight
less pupil possesses one vital advantage
over his companions. His memory,
accustomed to seize and assimilate def
nitIons and miscellaneous information
at a single hearing, acquires both
marvellous alertneSS and a phenominal
retentive capacity which enable him to
master certain branches OF study with
singular ease and rapidity. Deprived
of books and without any very ready
and reliable method of making notes,
he obtains habit, often envied by the
seeing, of appropriating inscantaneously
anything addressed to his intellect
through his hearing. Hence the pro-
verbally good memory of the blind
person. II mind Is his memorandum
book, always at hand and always open.
ITO the present writer, who never
remembers having lesson in anything
read over to him more than twice,
nothing is more strange and more
amusing than room full of school
children, with fingers crammed In their
ears, buZzing over lesson of three
pages for the fifteenth time. Equally
incomprehensible is it to see a man
making note of a single address, or
lady referring to shopping list. Such
observations force one to the conclusion
that the art of writing, invaluable as it
IS, has been disastrous to the human
memory. People have grown so to
rely on a piece of white paper covered
with black scratches, that il this be lost
| or misplaced, they are reduced almost
to the condition of creatures without
intellect.
$50 marked is the advantage of the
blind in this respect as almost to atone
for their extra difficulties in others;
that is, the sightless pupil will acquire
scientific aad philosophical studies with
a rapidity which Twill counterbalance
the greater amount of time demanded
by his less facile methods of writing out
exercises in linguistic and ciphering in
mathematical branches; so that in tax
ing the regular course at academy or
university, he will require, all in all,
| neither more time nor more labor than
the average student.
''Of not less value in after life is this
extraordinarily trained and developed
! memory. 1t enables the blind to derive
from lectures, conversation and general
reading ten times the benefit of others;
| on whose mind a simple mention of
facts and thoughts make little OF no
| impression.
THUS the law of compensation is
seen working in all things, making
good on one hand, approximately at
least. what is wanting on the other;
not by the special interference OF Provi-
dence or other power with natural CON-
! ditions and processes, for the benefit of
the individual, as many claim, but
through the inevitable sequence of
/ cause ana efeog, by which seiases ard
faculties become. through unusual
training, abnormally developed and
! their value radically enhanced.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07
Day of the Week at Manila.

Although the Philippine Islands lie
near to the Asatic coast it was 10y
Spaniards who sailed eastward from
America that they were settled. Did
they revise their calendar when they
crossed the magic line and strike out d
day to keep themselves abreast of the
timesP No such thing; the Spanish
dons of that day were a proud and fiery
folk. and if their calendar did not agree
with the times then so much the worse
for the times. Anyhow, the fact re-
mains that when they arrived at the
Manila or Philippine Islands they still
reckoned by the calendar which had
been taken from Spain to America,
and from America by them on their
voyage. They were, of course, day
in arrear; but as thlre not then any
important settlemer IS of civilized ma
tions thereabouts with whom the date
could be compared the date was not
noticed; the reckoning took firm hold,
and, in consequence, the inhabitants Of
Manila keep plodding along one day
behind all their immediate neighbors.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07
An OId-Fashioned Girl.

NJ Grandma was a modest girl.
NV mother says to me;
OF fuIoIesty the pink and pearl,
Whose ike we never see.
Her hustle was r. mighty thing
That weighed about four pound,
Her hoops a vast euc'rcling ring,
Fu. fifteen feet around.
Her powdered haIr was curled 50 tight,
And built up sterple high,
she could not take IL down at night,
Nor could she wink her eye;
For dayS together, I have read,
Her hair would thus remain;
E.lr ut much, dear Grandma's head
A shampoo would disdain-
She used 20 drink power Of wine,
And Gamble with the men;
And 'acri This slender waist Of mine,
Belonged 90 fish wives then.
Her lovers did not WOO like men,
Eur u-H,i t1 sneak and creep
Beneath Miss Grlndma's window, When
The family was asleep.
And then -I'yr heard Grandfather say
When Sue was seveuteen,
one pitch dark night she ran away
With him Go Gretua Green;
4. this, my badness qualities
AT ttim,s when Ma uufurIs
Her family history, and signs
Foo more "oid-tashioned girls"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07
A Sign That Worked Both Ways.

"I'm not the least superstitlous, :"
said lady in the street car to her es-
cort. "but there is one sign that l We
never known to fail. If l see the ew
moon over my left shoulder Pm just as
sure TO nave bad luck as can be, and if
1 see 1t over my right shoulder l always
have good luck"
THAT is very remarkable"
"Isn't it, Now last month / saw the
moon over my left shoulder, and the
very next day / went out riding or
Dolly and she threw me. Wasn't that
awful luckp''
sit was, indeed. Did you ever know
it to work the other wayp"
Certainly l have. l saw the moon
over my right shoulder this month, and
the other day when l was out driving.
and the horse overturned the carriage.
| didn't even get hurt, although |
night have been killed. Oh, I'm sure il
never fails.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07

! tenanted by the sisters. They now have
three children, whom their relatives
combine to ruin by indulgence; and the
eldest, sturdy boy. always speaks of
the time when he viii wear his fathers
sword, and take his place in fighting
| AGAINST the enemies of the Mlkado.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07

LITTLE Ruth sat at the table and
heard each remark made as the plates
were passed. One wanted ''small
piece;" another "a very little," etc.
When it came her turn she reached hez
plate out eagerly toward the coveted
food.
'I'l take too much, il 200 pease
papa" she said, with naive sincerity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07

HE-I saw your friend, Miss Sniver-
ly, on Austin avenue, and noticed how
poorly she was looking. Has she been
sick?
She-No. that's not the reason she
looks so bad. The druggists have ad-
opted the cash system and complexion
costs money.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07

The blackberry succeeds on old wood
snil
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07

Plant early sweet corn pretty thick.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-07

Lrs' Hu,lus-,. Csllsss:s Css,.l,ll,s,ssS:siP. $40. w
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-09-28
FOREIGN.

LONDON, Sept. 12-The Austrian consul
at Bombay reports that 31,32s deaths from
cholera occurred in Odde during last May.
The disease still prevails in Malta.
ROME, Sept. ia brigadier in the ponti-
fetal gems d. armes has been attacked with
cholera. Much anxiety is felt in the vatican
and the pope has ordered that the strictest
precautions be taken to prevent a spread of
the disease.
DETROIT, Sept. 13.-The National Brewers
union adopted resolutions to-day condemn
ing the action of General Master Workman
Powderly and the general executive board Of
the Knights of Labor in opposition of the
sale Of intoxicating beverages.
DUBLIN, Sept. 13.--The ..Freeman's Journal
says the cell in which VIM. O'Brien is confln-
ed at Clark is but nine feet long and four
feet broad. It is badly lighted and little bet
ter than black hole. O'Brien is in excellent
spirits. A great demonstration is being Or
ganized at Mitchelstown to be made to-mor-
rev, during the funeral Of enc OF the men
shot.
MONTREAL, Sept. 13.--The detectives who
have gone to Ontario to bring McGarigle, the
Chicago boodler, to Montreal, to stand his
trial before the court Of Queens bench on a
charge Of conspiracy are not likely to be sue.
cessful If letter that was received In this city
to-day proves to be genuine. 1t purports to
be signed by McGariele, and says that he is on
his way to Switzerland. The letter is dated
Paris, September2.
HALIFAX, Sept. 13.-St. Pierre advices
tate that the disasters which occurred during
the recent great gales on the banks are still
being reported daily. The schooner St.
Pierre passed there bottom up. Her crew of
8 xteen men had all been lost. The vessels
belonging to the French codfshing feet
beard from up to the present time, report the
loss Of fifty lives. One hundred vessels have
ben badly damaged and have been withdrawn
from the fisheries, thus losing the September
g. This will decrease the seasons catch
2),oG0 quintals, and in consequence prices
have already advanced Is per cent.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-09-28
Is he orea. wan q china My,h,

Able Larrieu, formerly missionary In
China. has published q pamphlet G Par
is, Leroux'') on the great wall Of China
to demonstrate that that this structure
does not exist and has never existed.
The popular belief is that this wall
stretches for about soOSleagues across
China, from the sea to the province OF
Kansu, that it is constructed OF cut
stone, and thirty cubits high by twelve
broad. It is believed to run straight
on regardless Of obstacles, going down
valleys and up mountains, without q
break, except such as time as made.
along its whole course. This notion
originated with a. Jesuit, named Mar
tint, who visited China about 1850, and
his description was followed by subse-
quent writer's. M Larrieu has lived
lived for several years under what
would have been the shadow of the
great wall, had there been one; he has
studied the writings of recent writer's
especially Able Huc--who have crossed
the line Of the alleged wall in various
places; he has likewise studied the
Chinese history of the subject, and has
conclusions as follows: ~ the term
'Great Wall' is at the bottom of all
misun 'erstandlng, and it comes from
the Chinese expression '.the wall
of the ten thousand H." (2) as de-
scribed by Martini and other
writer's who have CAPPED him, this wall
does not and never did exist; (5) a
Chinese emperor undoubtedly did con-
ceiye the idea of great wall from the
Gulf of Liao-Long on the east to Kansu
on the west, and this. though never
realized, had beginning; a. all along
the proposed line of the wall square
towers of earth, or of earth faced with
brick, were constructed at considerable
distances from each other, but these
were never joined together By any wall
as was originally intended. In some
of the defiles along the route there are
walls, but these were intended to close
these particular passages, or they are
merely the walls or villages, and are
not part of larger scheme. Hence
the only part of the scheme of the
Great Wall carried out was the con-
struction of these scattered towers; the
rest never went beyond the brain that
conceived it; it was never more than a
fancy, and it Is now a myth. This
huge Chinese wall, says Aboe Larrieu,
is huge Chinese lie, and as for the
million soldiers which were said to
guard it night and day, they are myths
likewise. The alleged great wall is a
favorite excursion for Europeans visit
ing Pekin, and such question as to
whether it exists at all or not should
be an easy one to settle definitely
London Times.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-09-28
Lands to be Allotted.

BANCROFT, Neb., Sept. p1e.--Miss Alice
Fletcher who was appointed by the interior
department to allot the lands ON the Omaha
and Winnebage reservation TO the the Indians,
is at the WlnHebago agency, making prepar-
atisns TO begin locating the Indians about
the LIST of October.
The allotments will be made as follows:
Each Indian under eighteen years, 40 acres;
each over eighteen and unmarried, so acres;
each head Of family, whether widow or wild
over, 100 acres. After all the Indians have re-
ceived their lands in severallty there will
remain about 5000 acres for the white man.
Col. j. F. Warner, Indian agent Ct these
reservations, states that these 5000 acres
would consist of the poor lands on the hill
tops and a portion of timber along the Mis-
souri,. It was hoped all the western portions
would be opened to white settlers as 1t is not
likely that the Indians will ever use the one
hundreth part allotted them.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-09-28
WEST AMI SOUTH

NORRIS, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-The grand jury Of
Grundy county concluded it's labors this
morning without returning an Indictment for
Miss Dodge's arrest, as 1t was thought there
was moi sufficient conclusive eYi ience on
which to base conviction.
JoNEsBoRo, ILL.,, Sept. n.--John G. Ecker,
young German living two miles south Of
this place, was found dead beside the railroad
mile from town this morning. He had been
shot twice and his watch and money were
gone. The deed is supposed to. have been the
work of tramps, two of them having met him
at the place where the murder occurred.
SAN Francisco, Sept. 1l--Advices from
Tuscon, A. T., are to the effect that ire
mendous food has swept away fully twenty
miles Of the track Of the Southern Pacific
railway, between Tucson and Benson. Full
details of the disaster are not yet known, but
official of the Southern Pacific declare 1t will
cause an entire cessation of traffic over the
southern route for at least two weeks. The
disaster is the most serious Of the kind in the
history of the road.
Sioux FALLS, Sept. 13-The congregational
district conference of South Dakota met in
their seventeenth annual convention In Sioux
Falls this evening. The asso citation will have
three days. session. There are already about
fifty members present, and the early trains
tomorrow will increase the number very ma
terially.
MIToELsTowN, Sept. 13.-The funeral of
Michael Lenergon, who was shot dead by the
police last Friday, took place yesterday after
noon. The body was followed to the ceme-
terry by thousands of people, the procession
being over half a mile long. at the grave
Father Mccarthy made an address in which
he exclaimed "God have mercy on his soul;
may he receive more mercy in heaven than he
received on EARTH" The police kept out Of
sight.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-09-28
One Kind of Lovelock.

ssChain bracelets are very fashions a.
BILE now for girls engaged to be mar
ried," said jeweler to a reporter for
the New York Mail and Express re-
Gently. "Some have paddock at
tached. The lover places the chain
about the wrist, whose pulses beat for
him, locks the dainty symbol of band
ags and wears the key on his watch
chain. Ladies who wear their bonds
lightly find it easy to slip the pretty
evidence of engaged affections far up
the arm and hide it beneath the sleeve
when they wish to please others than
their Romeos.
The big conspicuous diamond ring is
not SO easily hidden. Some of the
chain bracelets are of beaten gold and
others of nugget gold. Some are made
as simple chain, while in others the
links are beautifully engraved. Some
have diamonds and other precious
stones set in the links.
ave made very novel bracelet re-
Gently. It was an acrostic ornament,
if one may use that term. 1t was a
chain with paddock, but the middle
seven links were nuggets with precious
stones in each one. The first letter Of
the stones read: I'D. e. A. &. Els. I. z
and the stones were placed in the order:
Diamomnd, emerald, amethist, ruby,
emerald. sapphire, topaz. This braee-
let cost $3.50 and was one Of the hand
soonest have ever seen.
$500
Thousand Of cnres follow the use OF Dr..